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I built a business plan with ChatGPT and it turned into a cautionary tale


Getting ChatGPT to come up with a stable business plan took lots of coffee, and a sharp eye for errors.

Working with ChatGPT, using the newly installed OpenAI GPT-5 model, I started a chat to devise a plan to acquire thousands of subscribers for my budding newsletter publication by spending money on advertisements. Tiernan Ray with ChatGPTI was faced with a realization that must be familiar to many users of generative AI: ChatGPT had left out a key assumption, but could point to that omission when prompted. RAG can help ensure that individual variables, such as subscriber count or cash flow, once arrived at, for example, stay fixed and constant, unless they are explicitly changed at some point by common accord between the user and the machine.

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